Improvement in apparatus for carbureting air



G. W. LAMB. APPARATUS FOR CAR'BU'RETING AIR.

Patented .T uly 10, 1877.

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l -GEQlGE Wg LAMB, 0F WESTONBURG, KENTUQKY- IMPRovEMENT iN 4APPARATUSFon cARBuRETING AIR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 193,007, dated lJuly10, 1877,' application led July 3, 1817.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE W. LAMB, ofWestonburg, in the county of Crittenden and State of Kentucky, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Gas-GeneratingApparatus; and I do hereby declare that the clear, and exactdescripaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, andin which- Figure l represents a central vertical section of my improvedmachine; Fig. 2, a crosssection through the line w w, Fig. l.

This invention relates to improvements in machines for generating gas;and the invention consists in the combination of parts, as will behereinafter fully described.

A in the drawing represents the outer case or shell of the machine.

In the present instance the machine is composed oi twocarbureting'chambers, B representing the lower, and U the upper, one.The lower chamber is for the reception of crude petroleum and water,which is introduced through the pipe b. D is a pipe, through which theair is forced, under heavy pressure, into the chamber B through thevertical pipe E in the well F, arranged below the bottom of chamber B.

Over the pipe E is placed a looselylitting tube, H, from the top ofwhich extends outward a broad ange, forming a convex cap or iioat, G.

The tube H is made larger in diameter than the pipe E, so that'it isadapted, in connection with the concave cap oriloat G, to rise and fallwith the liquids contained therein, said cap or iioat being guided initsmovement by the vertical stationary rods c, which pass through the armsg of the cap or iioat.

The upper chamber C, which contains the gasoline, naphtha, or otherhydrocarbon liquid introduced therein through pipe d, is also providedwith a well, F', having a central vertical pipe, E', with a concave capor -ioat, G', and tube arranged in a similar manner as in chamber B.These chambers B and O communicate with each other through the pipe I,arranged in such manner that the gas generated in chamber B by the crudepetroleum, water, and air is discharged therefrom at a point above itsintroduction into the gasolinechamber C. This pipe I also passesupwardly to a point above the gasoline contained in chamber C, thencedownwardly and communicates with the gasoline-chamber G through pipe E.This construction and arrangement of pipe I prevents the gasoline frompassing down into chamber B. Y

It will also be observed that the pipe D is arranged in a similar mannerto pipe I, which prevents the crude petroleum and water from escapingthrough said pipe.

Illuminating-gas is generated in the following manner: The lower chamberB is lled with crude ber G with gasoline, to a point equal to thevertical play of the conical caps or floats G G.

The air is then introduced into the lower chamber, under heavy pressure,through the pipes D E, which forces the petroleum and water up throughthe tube H over the cap or float, thence downward into the well, andback through the tube and over the cap or float, as clearly indicated bythe arrows in Fig. 1, this operation being continued until the gas isentirely ,generated from the liquids contained therein, the gasgenerated in chamber B in the meantime passing up into the chamber C,where the gasoline is subjected to the same operation as the crudepetroleum and water `in chamber B, and the illuminating-gas generatedtherefrom being discharged ready for use through the pipe J.

The cap` or loat in the upper chamber can be used for indicating theheight of the liquid contained therein through a glass or transparentindicator in the side of the chamber.

The pipes D I may also be provided with tubes and stop-cocks for drawingoff the liquids contained in the chambers B G when de- Siled.'

The ahove-described machine is very simple in its construction, and thegas generated from the liquidsused in connection. with the air makes avery brilliant light.

The entire apparatus is well adapted for family use, as well assupplying any greater number of burners, the number of burners bel Vingregulated by the size of the carburetingchambers.

petroleum and water, and cham- I claim as my inventionchambers F F',caps or floats Gr G1, with their 1. The combination, in a gas-generatingaptubes H H', the several parts constructed and paratus, of the pipe andwell chambers E F relatively arranged substantially as herein andconcave cap or oat Gr with its tube H, shown and described.

arranged and operating substantially in the GEORGE W. LAMB.v mannerspecified. Witnesses 2. The combination, with the carbureting- DE WITTG. ALLEN,

chambers B C, of the pipes D I E E', well- J. A. TAUBERSOHMIDT.

